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10 Baht - Rama VIII Series 5, without serial numbers and signature
| Issuer | Government of Thailand (รัฐบาลไทย) |
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| Year | 1942-1944 |
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| Printer | National Printing Bureau (国立印刷局, Imperial Printing Bureau of Japan), Japan (1871-date) |
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| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing bust vignette of King Rama VIII (Ananda Mahidol) is set against the Crown-top Gate of Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha). A Garuda device occupies the upper centre, flanked by Thai numeral denominational values in the upper corners and an Arabic numeral in the lower-left corner; a three-headed elephant (Airavata) vignette fills the lower-right corner. The overall design is rendered in dark brown intaglio. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Thailand's wartime alignment with Imperial Japan during the Pacific War meant that domestic printing capacity was effectively unavailable, and this series was produced entirely in Tokyo — an arrangement that left the issuing government dependent on Japanese infrastructure at a moment of profound political compromise. The absence of serial numbers and the missing signature block are not errors; they reflect a simplified emergency production protocol applied across several Thai wartime issues to accelerate output under difficult conditions.
P#59 is notably scarcer than its serialized counterparts in Series 5, largely because undistributed remainder stocks were destroyed rather than released.